Montanelli Indro Quotes & Sayings

It's a blip, not a catastrophe. — Donald J. Trump

I know many crooks and they never preach, but I don't know anyone who preaches that isn't a crook also. — Indro Montanelli

Cynics are all moralists, and merciless too. — Indro Montanelli

The nice thing about political pundits is that, when they answer a question, one no longer understands what they were asked. — Indro Montanelli

Turns out fixing people up is not how we make money. It's failing to fix people up while still giving them hope that soon we might. — Laurie Frankel

Which ever one of you will want to become a journalist, let him remember to choose his own master: the reader. — Indro Montanelli

They could hear people complaining; one surly voice said, "I can't see no gas ... "
"That's because it's colorless," said Ginny in a convincingly exasperated voice, "but if you want to walk through it, carry on, then we'll have your body as proof for the next idiot who didn't believe us ... — J.K. Rowling

It is his fate to enter every door. This has been willed where what is willed must be, and is not yours to question. Say no more. — Dante Alighieri

I have never dreamt of contesting the Church her right to remain faithful to herself, meaning to the commandments that come from Doctrine ... but that she expects to impose these commandments upon me who do not have the good fortune of being a believer, trying to pour them into civil law in a way that they become obligatory even to us non-believers, is it right? To me it doesn't seem so. — Indro Montanelli

She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word. — Diana Wynne Jones

A real writer [ ... ] looks not in another writer but himself. — Indro Montanelli

[Addressed to Berlusconi who wanted to impose himself on the editorial style of "Il Giornale"] In the art of entrepeneurship, you are certainly a genius, and I an asshole. But in the art of argument the genius is me, and you the asshole. — Indro Montanelli

There is nothing wrong with me. These are really sick people, sick that you can see. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Men do not know how to appreciate and measure luck except that of others. Their own never. — Indro Montanelli

The only advice that I'm in the mood to give - and that I give regularly - to young people is this: fight for what you believe in. You will lose, just like I have lost, all the battles. But only one you may win. The one that you engage every morning, in front of the mirror. — Indro Montanelli

Bodily haste and exertion usually leave our thoughts very much at the mercy of our feelings and imagination. — George Eliot

Servitude, in many cases, is not forced upon by the masters, but a temptation of the servants. — Indro Montanelli

An Italian university is a contradiction in terms. — Indro Montanelli

Fascism rewarded jackasses in uniform. Democracy gives priviliges to those in sports' gear. In Italy, political regimes come to pass. The jackasses remain. Triumphant. — Indro Montanelli

Politicians do nothing but ask of us, during every expiration of a legal statute, "a gesture of trust." But here trust is not enough; what's needed is an act of faith. — Indro Montanelli

The love of power excludes all others. — Indro Montanelli

Pertini has interpreted as their best the worst about Italians. — Indro Montanelli

You give Italy Jesus Christ and you get the Roman Catholic Church. — Indro Montanelli

Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone. — Indro Montanelli

I got these haters like, When he gon' stop?
Maybe a minute after never, start ya clocks. — Lil' Wayne

Also we Italians have something to Elvis Presley: to offer one of the rare occasions when we prefer to be Italian rather than American. — Indro Montanelli

The bond between friends cannot be broken by chance; no interval of time or space can destroy it. Not even death itself can part true friends. — John Cassian

Italian husbands, in order to buy their wives a fur, spend more than all their European collegues. — Indro Montanelli

Bond's car was his only personal hobby. One of the last of the 4½-litre Bentleys with the supercharger by Amherst Villiers, he had bought it almost new in 1933 and had kept it in careful storage through the war. It was still serviced every year and, in London, a former Bentley mechanic, who worked in a garage near Bond's Chelsea flat, tended it with jealous care. — Ian Fleming

The guy just stood there. Hello. There're zombies everywhere. Try looking behind you, douche canoe. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Certainly, for a newspaper director, to have within arm's reach a Travaglio, about whom every starring actor, supporting cast and extra of Italian political life he is ready upon cold request to provide an inquiry brief refined in the most minute details is a nice comfort. But also a bit unsettling. The day I asked him if in that archive, into which no one is allowed to stick their nose, there were a brief with my name on it, Marco changed the subject. — Indro Montanelli

It isn't necessary to be socialists in order to love Pertini. Whatever he says or does, smells of cleanliness, of loyalty and of sincerity. — Indro Montanelli

Being onstage is everything thats good about life. — Joan Jett

Democracy is always, by nature and constitution, the triumph of mediocrity. — Indro Montanelli